The West Bengal Panchayat Act, 1973 - MGNREGA Jalpaiguri, Home

(i) set a part and apply annually such sum as may be required to meet the cost
of its own administration including the payment of salary, allowances,
provident fund and gratuity to the officers and employees and to the
Executive Officer, 2 [the Additional Executive Officer, the Secretary or the
Deputy Secretary;]
(ii) allocate the money received under clause (i) of sub-section (1) among the
Gram Panchayats of the district concerned.
(3) Every Zilla Parishad shall have the power to spend such sums as it thinks fit
for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(4) The Zilla Parishad Fund shall be vested in the Zilla Parishad and the amount
standing to the credit of the fund shall be kept in such custody or invested in such
manner as the State Government may, from time to time, direct.
(5) Subject to such general control as the Zilla Parishad may exercise, from time
to time, all orders and cheques for payment from the Zilla Parishad Fund shall be
1 [signed by the Executive Officer, or if authorised by the Executive Officer 2 (by
the Additional Executive Officer, the Secretary or the Deputy Secretary.)]
Proceeds of
roads cess and
public works
cess to be
cerdited to the
Zilla Parishad
Fund.
Levy of
tolls,fees and
rates.
180. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Cess Act, 1880, the proceeds
of road cess and public works cess, if any, levied and realised in a district shall
be credited to the Zilla Parishad Fund after payment of the expenses mentioned
in section 109 of the said Act.
181. (1) Subject of such maximum rates as the State Government may prescribe,
a Zilla Parishad may—
(a) levy tolls on persons, vehicles or animals or any class of them at any toll-bar
established by it on any road other than a kutcha road or any bridge vested in it
or under its management;
(b) levy tolls in respect of any ferry established by it or under its management;
(c) levy the following fees and rates, namely:—
(i) fees on the registration of boats or vehicles;
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